Word: paranoid
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...would do things like manifest symptoms. I would go to the doctor like every week all the time. And I finally said, "I have to stop this. Either I make a commitment to just live my life and make sure I live it to the fullest and not be paranoid about things like this, or else I'm just going to be overwhelmed and consumed by this paranoia. When I made that commitment, that liberated...
...seems paranoid to depict Harvard as a Big brother watching us. But if history can be a guide, it may be equally naive to trust University officials when they promise that student-to-student communications are confidential...
...hidden world of spies that he now saw plots everywhere. But these were mere nuances to the majority opinion: Inman, explaining why he was withdrawing as nominee to be Secretary of Defense, produced a bizarre TV classic -- an utterly convincing, because utterly unintentional, portrayal of himself as paranoid...
...persecuted by -- or just paranoid about -- the press...
...borders, Zhirinovsky's improbable but disquieting suggestions of "new Hiroshimas" and "Chernobyls" were enough to force a swift rethink of strategy. Last week Germans modified their enthusiastic calls for an eastward expansion of NATO, pushing instead for a "gradual and controlled" opening in order to assuage Russia's paranoid generals. In Washington the dominant refrain was to urge the U.S. Administration both to reduce its personal identification with Yeltsin and to broaden its contacts within Russia. And Westerners everywhere read the returns as proof positive that Yeltsin's personal popularity did not translate into broad-based support for Western-style...